​Do you know which risk factors put you most at risk for a heart attack? As an interventional cardiologist at the Intermountain Heart Institute at Intermountain Medical Center in Murray, I've put together six simple questions you should ask yourself to help you know if your heart is healthy.​​

During the winter cold and flu season, most people know that it’s not normal to be coughing. And, when we hear or see someone cough, we tend to want to “stay away” from the person who is sick. But for some reason, when the weather gets sunny and warm, many of us forget that it’s not normal to be coughing.

The noon-day sun is the number one source of our vitamin D. But in the dead of winter it's too cold to go outside, the sun is too low in the sky, and these inversions block out the sun's rays. As a heart rhythm specialist at the Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute, here's why vitamin D matters, and how you can get it during the winter season.​​​​

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